Horkheimer found writing dialectical philosophy slow because it had to absorb recent decades’ experience.

Evidence

There is already an imposing series of preliminary notes, but the final formulation of them will still take years. This is due partly to the objective difficulties of the task of producing a formulation of dialectical philosophy which will take account of the experience of recent decades, and partly to our lack of routine, the cumbersomeness of thinking, and the lack of clarity on important points which we are still labouring under. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 345

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School volumes’ recurring theme that the Dialectic of Enlightenment project required the catastrophe of the 1930s-40s as its raw material. — connects to: Writing Dialectic of Enlightenment left Horkheimer intellectually exhausted — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 12; Horkheimer believed only his small circle could sustain the slow work of philosophy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 322; After Dialectic of Enlightenment Horkheimer produced only occasional pieces, not sustained theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 417
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Writing Dialectic of Enlightenment left Horkheimer intellectually exhausted — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 12; Horkheimer believed only his small circle could sustain the slow work of philosophy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 322; After Dialectic of Enlightenment Horkheimer produced only occasional pieces, not sustained theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 417